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Program Assessment

Program

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Child Welfare Services

The program provides grants to states and Indian tribes to strengthen child welfare services in order to ensure children's safety, permanency and well-being. These funds support a range of preventive and intervention services.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Child Welfare Services is a critical component of the continuum of care provided through the State-administered child welfare system. The program was found to be generally well administered at the State and Federal level and well coordinated with related programs.
  • Child Welfare Services makes effective use of comprehensive reviews of State child welfare systems to devise new management strategies and direct technical assistance resources.
  • The program has no independent studies evaluating program effectiveness.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing and reporting on a new efficiency measure focused on reducing the length of time needed to approve State CFSR program improvement plans.
  • Working with grantees and other agency partners to support and improve child welfare program evaluation.

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